As much valour is to be found in feasting as in fighting, and some of our city captains and carpet knights will make this good, and prove it.1

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Anatomy of Melancholy. Part i. Sect. 2, Memb. 2, Subsect. 2.

Note 1.Carpet knights are men who are by the princes grace and favour made knights at home . They are called carpet knights because they receive their honours in the court and upon carpets.Markham: Booke of Honour (1625).